Power, Gender, and Social Change in AfricaMuna Ndulo, Margaret Grieco Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 - 397 pages Gender plays a hugely significant and too often under-considered role in predicting how accessible resources such as education, wage-based employment, physical and mental health care, adequate nutrition and housing will be to an individual or community. According to a 2001 World Bank report titled Engendering Developmentâ "Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, enormous disparities exist between men and women in terms of basic rights and the power to determine the future, both in Africa and around the globe. A better understanding of the links between gender, public policy and development outcomes would allow for more effective policy formulation and implementation at many levels. This book, through its discussion of the challenges, achievements and lessons learned in efforts to attain gender equality, sheds light on these important issues. The book contains chapters from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including sociologists, economists, political scientists, scholars of law, anthropologists, historians and others. The work includes analysis of strategic gender initiatives, case studies, research, and policies as well as conceptual and theoretical pieces. With its format of ideas, resources and recorded experiences as well as theoretical models and best practices, the book is an important contribution to academic and political discourse on the intricate links between gender, power, and social change in Africa and around the world. |
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... Zambian Criminal Procedure Code , ( chapter 160 Laws of Zambia ) which empowers the High Court to admit any person to bail at any time in response to an appeal from the accused on a contrary ruling . The court avoided this bail statute ...
... Zambia ” ( 1974 ) 30 , Zambia Law Journal . Church argues that state decisis was pursued with even more rigor than in England itself , see 29. See also , Chama v . the People 1972 ZR 29 . 5 See Donna J. Sullivan , " Women's Human Rights ...
... Zambia . 13 White Principles of Customary Civil Law in Zambia Government printer 1970 133 . 14 15 Ibid . Ibid 135 . 16 C. Himoonga , " The Law of Succession and Inheritance in Zambia and the Proposed Reform , ” International Journal of ...
Contents
Powerful Mothers and Equal Rights | 60 |
The Economic Roots of African Womens Political Participation | 77 |
Activisim Scholarship and Gender | 94 |
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